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Are Married Women in Turkey More Likely to Become Added or Discouraged Workers?
Author(s) -
Başlevent Cem,
Onaran Özlem
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
labour
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.403
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1467-9914
pISSN - 1121-7081
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9914.00248
Subject(s) - turkish , demographic economics , bivariate analysis , economics , multivariate probit model , probit , discouraged worker , cohabitation , labour economics , demography , geography , unemployment , economic growth , sociology , econometrics , statistics , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , unemployment rate , archaeology
. The purpose of this study is to examine the labour market outcomes of married couples to find out which of the added and discouraged worker effects is dominant in urban Turkish families. Using household labour force survey and province‐level data from 1988 and 1994, we look for evidence regarding the dependency of the labour force participation decisions of wives and the employment status of their husbands. On yearly and pooled samples of married couples in their prime ages, bivariate probit estimates indicate that the two decisions are negatively correlated. However, the correlation is found to be statistically significant only in the economic crisis year of 1994. We interpret this finding to mean that the added worker effect dominates the discouraged worker effect.